300 creative physics problems with solutions

 This collection of exercises, compiled for talented high school students, encourages creativity and a deeper understanding of ideas when solving physics problems.

Emerging strategies for supporting student learning

Emerging Strategies for Supporting Student Learning provides a straightforward and accessible guide to the latest learning and teaching practices appropriate for use with higher education students.

Critical literacy for information professionals

This edited collection explores critical literacy theory and provides practical guidance to how it can be taught and applied in libraries.

Learner-centred pedagogy

Fusing theory with practice, this handbook is a valuable resource to help every librarian connect with learners more effectively.

Visual literacy for libraries

This book will give you an understanding of how images fit into your critical practice and how you can advance student learning with your own visual literacy.

Radical collections: re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions

This volume looks at the role that archivists and librarians play in compiling collections – do they “curate” history? To what extent are they gatekeepers of knowledge? It shines a light on pressing topical issues within library and information services (LIS)- to encompass selection, appraisal an...

Metaliteracy

This new book presents a comprehensive structure for information literacy theory that will help your students grasp an understanding of the critical thinking and reflection required to engage in technology spaces as savvy producers, collaborators, and sharers.

Metaliteracy in practice

Metaliteracy in Practice will provide inspiration for librarians and educators in need of up-to-date and thought-provoking information literacy curricula and instructional approaches.

Contemporary black urban music

The examination of CBUM/Hip-Hop as a global-force factors highly in this course. A wide range of topics will be presented to the student in preparation for written essays, philosophical flexibility and assessment.

Teaching later british literature

Designed for both first-time teachers of survey courses in later British literature and more experienced instructors seeking a new way to approach familiar material, ‘A Handbook to Teaching Later British Literature’ presents a synthetic and adaptable framework for guiding students through British...

Representations of working in arts education

Arts education provides students with opportunities to build knowledge and skills in self-expression, imagination, creative and collaborative problem-solving. This book provides key insights from stakeholders across the teaching and learning spectrum and offers examples of pedagogical practice to...

Jazz theory – contemporary improvisation, transcription and composition

This course offers advanced work in composition, analysis, arranging and current theoretical ideas and processes relevant to improvisors and composers.

Anthem critical thinking and writing skills

‘Anthem Critical Thinking and Writing Skills: An Introductory Guide’ is an excellent companion text for high school and college English writing classes that focus on critical thinking and persuasive writing. Concepts are presented in a clear, easy-to-understand format, and practice exercises are ...

Gladstone and the logic of victorian politics

This book analyses the career of William Gladstone, charting the key stages in his political development and the ideas and influences that shaped his conduct.

Modelling international collaborations in art education

Explores online and in-person collaboration as a means of international experience for university art students. Based on a decade of experience, pedagogical and methodological topics are illustrated with student projects, inspiring reflection on teaching and artmaking strategies in online spaces,...

Art, sustainability and learning communities

The book tackles ecological and social challenges facing us today through the lens of art education and art practice, bringing together global voices to propose ways of engaging with issues of social justice and environmental awareness through the lens of art education, artistic and curatorial pr...

Changes in the higher education sector

This book considers the essential attributes of excellence in teaching as well as the main current factors both internally and externally that are driving higher educational institutes to raise their quality of teaching. It looks at the latest teaching methodologies that promotes deep learning an...

Readings in primary art education

This book focuses on the challenges of and approaches to teaching art to primary-school students. It gathers the work of scholars in the field and provides a framework for developing methods of teaching. Capturing the issues and debates that are shaping both curricula and practice, it is a key st...

Signs of change

There is no one-size-fits-all way to keep pace with the changes affecting high school students and those who educate them. That’s why Joan Lazarus has gathered here the insights of hundreds of secondary school theatre teachers and teaching artists on how they have responded to the shifting demand...

Signs of change

There is no one-size-fits-all way to keep pace with the changes affecting high school students and those who educate them. That’s why Joan Lazarus has gathered here the insights of hundreds of secondary school theatre teachers and teaching artists on how they have responded to the shifting demand...

The importance of sentiment in promoting reasonableness in children

On Becoming Reasonable” explores the contributions that 18th Century Scottish philosophers Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and David Hume make to our understanding of important factors in the development of children as they gradually acquire central features of reasonableness.

Punk pedagogies in practice

This edited collection develops existing work on punk pedagogy by connecting theory and practices whilst simultaneously disrupting current accepted approaches to pedagogy in post-16 education. This globally focused text takes an interdisciplinary approach that can be applied to a wide range of co...

The open university

This historical perspective on The Open University, founded in 1969, frames its ethos (to be open to people, places, methods and ideas) within the traditions of correspondence courses, commercial television, adult education, the post-war social democratic settlement and the Cold War. A critical a...

The financial history of cambridge university

Robert Neild traces how Cambridge – having since 1945 received money, public and private, that carried it to the top of the world rankings of universities – is suffering at the hand of cuts in government funding and a tide of political intervention.

The language experience approach and the science of literacy instruction

This book considers Russell Stauffer’s Language Experience Approach (LEA), an approach that must be judged by its impact on student learning and not on the age of conception. The nature of wholistic teaching in early childhood and beyond is explored, and developmental maturation for the different...

A history of the american school of classical studies at athens

A chronicle of the second 50 years in the life of the American School (originally founded in 1881). Conceived as a companion volume to Louis Lord's 1947 history of the first 50 years, it outlines the activities of the School both in Greece and in the USA, beginning with an absorbing account of th...

John ruskin and nineteenth-century education

John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and William Morris among others. A great educator, Ruskin is the force behind key debates in education today. The essays in ‘John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education‘ examine Ruskin’s influence on educating girls, libraries, cr...

Artistic research in the future academy

The rapid growth of doctoral-level art education challenges traditional ways of thinking about academic knowledge and, yet, as Danny Butt argues in this book, the creative arts may also represent a positive blueprint for the future of the university. Synthesizing institutional history with aesthe...

Inspiring writing in art and design

Inspiring writing in art and design

When art and design students are asked for statements to accompany their work, reflective journals, or critiques, reviews and essays, they often freeze up because they have to put their thoughts in writing. Although these students are comfortable expressing themselves visually, they lack confiden...

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Towards third generation learning and teaching

This book gives up-to-date descriptions of the forces that drive change in learning and teaching, offering a perspective of learning in the near future.

Facilitating effective sixth form independent learning

Facilitating Effective Sixth Form Independent Learning is a stage-by-stage guide for educators who are interested in setting up a teaching programme to facilitate the independent learning of Sixth Form students.

Contemporary design education in australia

This book offers a range of approaches to teaching higher education design students to learn to design collaboratively and creatively, through transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and interdisciplinary learning experiences. 49 b/w illus. 11 tables

Walking in art education

This edited collection highlights ways that arts-educators have taken up important questions around environmental sustainability and land stewardship through walking practices across spatial, temporal and cultural differences. 42 b&w illus.

Living histories

This new edited collection explores histories of art education in international contexts. Offers a series of thoughtful and invigorating conversations with international scholars who evoke our conceptualizations of the histories of art education in pursuit of more equitable, diverse and inclusive...

Art education in canadian museums

Surveys how art educators are engaging with a new range of approaches to museum education, responding to modern challenges in ways that are uniquely Canadian. Organized into three sections, this collection reconceptualizes museums to consider accessibility, differences in lived experiences, and h...

Design and the digital humanities

Designers and digital humanists have successfully worked together for over twenty years, but many people from both fields have yet to enjoy the many opportunities such collaborations represent. This guide prepares readers for working together, outlining disciplinary perspectives, lessons learned ...

Beyond text

Focuses on learning through arts-based research as a practice of social justice through which we can reimagine, interrupt, insist and resist as we engage collectively to better understand and rethink social, organisational and societal issues. The result of a multi-year and international research...

A/r/tography

Working around the pervasive themes of relationality and renderings, ethics and embodiment, movement and materiality, and propositions and potentials, the volume simultaneously offers a site for the review of key historical works and at the same time, new scholarship that enters into conceptual c...

Propositions for museum education

Examines the ways international art educators are engaging with twenty-first-century challenges in museum education. Organized into five sections, this collection reconceptualizes the role of museums via new technologies, socially just practices, accessibility, differences in lived experiences, a...

Arts education in ireland

Arts in Education in Ireland: from Pedagogy to Practice examines the distinctive nature of arts-based learning in education in Ireland. It draws on recent research from pedagogy to practice in Irish schools. It examines the relevance of arts-based learning against the backdrop of the drive for 21...

Leaping into dance literacy through the language of dance®

Dance-based dance literacy using a constructivist approach supports creativity and learning. Examples of applications of dance notation with dancers of all ages and the associated benefits are demonstrated using model activities supported by research outcomes, lesson plans, choreographic explorat...

Curriculum

Explores the intersection of contemporary art and school education in Art School; the independent curatorial framework throughout Ireland focused on establishing new interfaces between art and education, questioning pedagogical shifts through artistic practice, bringing contemporary artists into ...

The theory and practice of creative coaching

The Theory and Practice of Creative Coaching is the result of ten years of research and experimentation into the place and role of creativity in learning about and undertaking the skills of coaching in the workplace. The contents outline a wide variety of approaches and ideas to enhance and devel...

The insider's secrets to getting your school leadership job

What separates The Insider’s Secrets to Getting Your School Leadership Job from other books on this topic is that the author is the ultimate insider. Dr. Laurence Aronstein knows how the hiring process works from the inside. He vividly and simply de-mystifies the inner dynamics of the job search ...

Voices of the unvoiced

This book describes the Pukhtun women’s educational struggle in the traditionalist Pukhtun society to succeed against the odds. The sample women call for Pukhtun feminism for their emancipation and empowerment in Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

The value of voice in shared leadership and organizational behavior

In the world of education and business, there is a disconnect between stakeholders, their roles and responsibilities in guiding and leading organizations in a shared leadership model. Currently, leaders have a conceptional understanding of shared leadership but lack the tools to effectively guide...

Removing the educational silos

An edited collection of essays and chapters relating to interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary methods of teaching. It will provide inspiration, a guide for project replication in practice essays, and interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary teaching topics. For teachers in all stages of educat...

Disraeli and the art of victorian politics

This book reviews Benjamin Disraeli's political career in the context of Victorian politics. It also explores Disraeli 'the man' and his motivations and ambitions.

Practical rationality, learning and convention

This volume consists of a selection of the writings of Christopher Winch on topics on and related to the philosophy of education from 1988 until the present.

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Theatre for youth third space

Theatre for Youth Third Space is a practical yet philosophically grounded handbook for people working in theatre and performance with children and youth in community or educational settings. Presenting asset development approaches, deliberative dialogue techniques and frames for building strong c...

Academic ambassadors, pacific allies

This book offers a critical appraisal of Fulbright achievements and limitations in avoiding political influence, integrating gender and racial diversity, absorbing conflict and dissent, and responding to economic fluctuations and social change.

No size fits all

“No Size Fits All” makes the current all-or-nothing debates over public school policy passé by offering a bold and novel “third way” that could revolutionize American education.

Developing qualifications frameworks in eu partner countries

This publication puts forward the view that qualifications systems are useful tools for modernising education and training. National qualifications frameworks are treated as one aspect of qualifications systems which is useful for improving education.

The ethics of internationalisation

The commercial turn in the internationalisation of higher education generates numerous paradoxes for the university. The Ethics of Internationalisation is a critique of the ethical dilemmas confronting transnational scholars and the political threat to the university posed by the neoliberal knowl...

Internationalisation of post-1992 uk universities

The internationalisation of post-1992 universities is seen as an unmitigated success. ‘Internationalisation of Post-1992 UK Universities’ looks closely at the drivers towards internationalisation and questions the cost to the organisation and the effect overseas.